Dec
19
2009
How do I look?
Mmmm, takes a moment to look around and note absence of butterflies…ah….sweet moment. Finally, thanks to the brilliance of Genevieve at Lilac Creative I have a template for Chez Spud that I adore. I’m so pleased. I’m fairly sure I was a nightmare client, poor Genevieve. Hopefully she’s reclining on a sofa somewhere feasting on mince pies and making a heart felt entry in her Grudge Book…
I wrote a very detailed brief, but had no real idea what the final product might look like. To be honest I never imagined it would look like this, but then I lack any kind of creative imagination so that’s hardly surprising. Let’s just say Genevieve had some fairly, erm, ‘direct’ feedback as we went through the process. I might have to put myself in my own grudge book in fact. Oof.
I particularly love the hand-drawn vintage camera and typewriter she drew up there at the top. She even blogged about it showing her original sketches (sheesh! a brilliant designer, illustrator, coder AND a blogger…the woman is perfect and is henceforward to be known as St Genevieve).
No doubt there will be a few little ‘glitches’ so please do shout if you spot things that don’t work. And I have a couple of final adjustments to make, but they are very minor. All the photos are left aligned at the moment but that will change. I think the font for the posts is too big, and possibly too black. But just tweaks.
This was an appallingly painful process, until I found St Genevieve. I went through so many designers who either legged it with my money and didn’t deliver, couldn’t show me even half a decent portfolio, took the brief and then disappeared, didn’t bother to respond to numerous attempts for a costing etc etc. I started this project six months ago. Praise be for St Genevieve, we bow down and adore you.
